Sacramento International Film Festival

After his brother attempts suicide a few weeks before Christmas, an unrepentant asshole with a heart of gold moves back in with his comically dysfunctional family to help his brother, only to discover that his brother is the sanest of them all.

When a catastrophic accident causes an athlete to become paralyzed, and all seems to be lost, he finds redemption in the most unlikely place, with a gaggle of colorful characters in a halfway house for the mentally disabled.
Winner of 19 'Best Screenplay' awards. Previously #1 on the MovieBytes.com feature Drama & Family 'Winning Lists.'

A struggling Hollywood screenwriter recruits his former best friends to help him write a script about a series of pranks they pulled in high school, and they discover why their friendship fell apart (ADAPTATION meets IDIOCRACY). [11 awards/honors including, 1st in 2017 Los Angeles Screenplay Contestl]

PLAY THE FOOL
(Action / Comedy)
An eccentric musician recruits his old band to help steal a legendary guitar, unaware that competing military teams from Russia and the US Air Force - both trying to avert WWIII - are after his bass-player's rare, vintage gear.

LOG LINE: A young girl begins her life as an Asian martial arts Mensa chick in search of the American Dream.
SYNOPSIS: Lana Liu, disguised as a boy, enters a Chinese martial arts academy, only to be discovered. She fights to support her grandmother, and begin her journey to the home of her father, the USA.
Winner of 4 'Best Screenplay' awards.

Two estranged best friends set off on a road trip to explore what truths unite people in a modern America dominated by apathy and discord. It is soon clear, however, that truth is the last thing either man seeks. [20 awards/honors, including first place in the 2016 London Film Awards, the 2014 Awareness Film Festival, and the 2014 West Field Screenwriting Awards].

An obsessive-compulsive twenty-one-year-old Peruvian woman, hoping to find love and relief from her mental illness, travels from Lima to the USA on a work-abroad program and takes a job at a small ski resort in Montana. [9 awards/honors including, Honorable Mention, 2014 Indie Gathering Film Festival and Top Three Finalist, 2015 River Bend Film Fest]

In Mexico, a drug cartel boss kidnaps a washed-up Hollywood director, and the two are driven to insanity while shooting a documentary about the boss's once-powerful cartel--a project meant to help both men reclaim lost glory.

***OPTIONED BY BAFTA-WINNING PRODUCER*** LOGLINE: "In the final days of WWII, when a by-the-book pilot crash-lands on a Japanese island carrying the third atomic bomb, he's thrown into a crowded Allied POW camp and must escape to stop the Japanese from capturing the bomb...before he's forced to detonate it himself.

CITY OF CAVES is a serial fantasy drama ideal for TV or services such as Netflix or Amazon Prime , following two female shape-shifting werecats: a tiger and a domestic cat – who, after escaping the patriarchal tyranny of their leaders, try to uncover a way to free those still captive, while battling the evil forces beneath Nottingham.

The Heart of a Tiger is the searing true story about the incredible courage, resilience and strength of a woman who survived one of the worst atrocities inflicted upon mankind, the Cambodian Genocide—in which over a four-year-period over two million Cambodians were murdered and dumped in mass grave sites.

When prostitutes turn up murdered in Louisville, former detective inspector Nathan James, now owner of the tavern The Cloak and Dagger, fears The Ripper has reappeared after disappearing from Whitechapel in 1888.